Grimes Neal VS. Isaac Dickenson Ect.

 

Scott County Chancery Court Records

On file at the Virginia State Library

Not in full. My noted version.

Index Number 1834-10 ( 1834 is the year)

Grimes Neal vs. Isaac Dickenson Ect

It begins: “ To the Hon. Allen Taylor Chancellor of Wythe Dist. Orator Grimes Neil of Scott Co. VA.”

Orator states that, Nathan Ewing of Franklin Co. TN in fee of certain tract of land lying in the Co. of Lee, State of Virginia…containing 390 acres, sent George Daughtery to sell the said track of land…… He sold it to Grimes Neil for the sum of $1,800.00. Grimes paid up front $900.00 dollars and was to pay the rest when George Daughtery returned and got Nathan Ewing to procure the deed of conveyance.) Nathan Ewing died before George Daughtery got back to TN.

Then it goes on to say that: Nathan Ewing received the land from his wife Elizabeth’s father, by his will recorded in Franklin Co. TN. And that George Daughtery was the son in law of Elizabeth as he had married her daughter by her first marriage Ann Cartwright. Their children (George and Ann’s) were Nathan, John, and William Daughtery.

Grimes traded this tract of land to Isaac Dickerson for some land in Scott Co. at “ the ford of the Clinch River, “ which Isaac had got from George George.

( The problem was that since Nathan died, Grimes had never received his deed for the property in Lee Co. and Isaac would not give him the one for the land in Scott. So Grimes was trying to get the heirs of Nathan to make good on the transaction that had begun before Nathan died, and to get his deed from Isaac.)

There was also a note of : John Wallen of the State of TN, Claibourne Co. makes Deposition for Grimes.

NOTE: “History of Davidson Co. TN “ Page 91 states that Nathan Ewing was the son of Andrew Ewing. Both serving as Clerks of the Court. Nathan was elected in 1812, and died Saturday May 1, 1830.

“History of Davidson Co. TN “ Page 91 states that Nathan Ewing was the son of Andrew Ewing. Both serving as Clerks of the Court. Nathan was elected in 1812, and died Saturday May 1, 1830.There was also a note of : “History of Davidson Co. TN “ Page 91 states that Nathan Ewing was the son of Andrew Ewing. Both serving as Clerks of the Court. Nathan was elected in 1812, and died Saturday May 1, 1830.